Page 730 - Evading the Issue

Author Notes:

Guest Author's Note: "Eventually I came to the realization that refrigerators, with their metal exterior and dense insulation, are a decent defense against the elements, gunfire, and explosives."

Newbiespud's Note: Starting with this, we've got a grand total of eight pages of guest comics! I was a bit more stringent about quality and theme this time around, so it's not as many as I would have liked for a sabbatical. Still, three weeks will do.

I've seen the video version a few times <.<
Nice story, but the ending kind of spoils it for me.
I can enjoy both happy and sad stories, but I don't like stories that, for example, show us a thief re-make his life after leaving prison, get a proper job, get to know his family again... And then end after he's gotten addicted to drugs, killed his family in a drunk-driving accident, and returned to crime.

I can see how some people would consider MLD to have a fairly normal, possibly even 'happy', ending.
But for me, the story would have been easier to enjoy if either they just cut off the story while it's still happy, leaving it a light pony-on-earth story, or the suffering had been there in greater amounts from the start so I could stick to enjoying her suffering rather than growing attached (I do read 'Prequel', also known as 'Making a cat cry: The adventure', so I'm not unused to 'misery porn' as they call it)

I'm going to guess the nat. 20 couldn't have been used for disarming the nuke.

I'm also going to guess that [Insert name of pony wearing hat here] doesn't realize that the fridge (if it's not completely destroyed) might not fly away, and you'd be stuck in there without food until you either open it, or starve.

Still, I give a 'Bravo!' for evading the AoE of a nuke, not an easy feat to pull.

I know parties who'd make speculations about (more precisely, who'd make suggestive but not quite rule 34 fanart of) a mare PC and a stallion PC cramming themselves into a tight space together for a few minutes. But surviving a nuke takes precedence over propriety.

Crystal Skull. That could have done it better.
In many of those tests, they had built shelters to test various designs and materials. The scene should have ended with Indie running through a door before cutting to the countdown and blast. In the next scene, when some inspectors were looking over the wreckage, they find Indie in the shelter, eating a can of beans and demanding to know what took them so long to find him.

If only there was some other way to enjoy these characters.
Like an audio play, or some such.
Alas, I suppose we shall never get to see ponies tinker with bombs outside of Digo's guest comics.
Perhaps someone will, eventually (*dramatic sigh*), create way to hack ponies into roleplaying games.
I am sure Newbie would even be an acceptable GM.
Such a shame he's far too busy with the comic and will never, say, start a youtube channel.

Well, if he starts a new fallout campaign after Dragon Mawlers and calls out for characters, I can always try for it. Would be a bit tough on the sleep schedule because of time zone differences, but I mean, I could maybe take naps in the day to get around it maybe... I dunno.

Dang it, Digo, now you've got me wanting to get better at drawing so I too can start making Fallout-DnD-Pony-ish guest comics to throw at Spud!

But anyway, I like Jackie. She sounds like the kind of out-of-box thinker that I could work with. I mean, these are the kind of Hail Mary type plans that I would come up with... with mixed results, obviously. Too bad she's probably not going to survive this. Even with a +10, the DM will have to be really forgiving for this to even have a chance of being remotely successful here.

Maybe. I know I can make a good guest comic (or several, as the case ended up being. I still feel bad that Spud got pestered to pick up on something that I had made. But that's neither here nor there) and I do have an idea that I want to eventually toss at Spud the next time he does his rounds for guest comics. So we'll see what happens between now and then.

New episode out. And see? THIS is what I meant when I said I didn't want a Sunburst/Starlight reunion in last season's finale. Because they had a whole pile of issues to work through that couldn't get resolved in a pretty little ending montage. This is the kind of thing that needs an episode or two to get through.

Well, they could have 'hugged and made up' in a montage, they just wouldn't be proper friends again until after this episode.
Really, the Our Townians (Ourians? Townians? Towns-People? I think I like 'Towns People' as a name for them)
Anyway, the Towns People also need an episode if they're to truly have forgiven her (and in general, really, especially as one of my favorite reactors, and the one I feel most needs the encouragement, seemed quite taken with a certain Pegasus)

Also, @aerion - I liked the quartet of heroic Townsponies that saved the day in the S5 premiere. I've been wanting to see them again - or to see other heroes like them sprout up as Twilight and company traveled Equestria.

They have that in the new eps? Haven't seen them yet (isn't there a grace period in effect before you're supposed to talk about new eps on here?), but I'm glad to hear they do show the reunion in the show. Of course, it means I can't write a fic about it anymore. XP

It's literally in the introduction of the episode that a Sunburst/Starlight reunion gets mentioned. Not that much of a spoiler. And I'm pretty sure everyone's repeatedly posted about new episodes the day they came out.

Yeah, but the issues don't really show up until later - or at least you don't know they're serious issues until they've failed to dissapear after the start of the episode.
You're still essentially 'spoiling' that it's going to be more than just momentary nervousness.

Doc is my character in an online Fallout Equestria campaign. Jackie was an OC I created from a few years back when I was RPing in a Buck Legacy card game with some friends. I randomly rolled up a pegasus pirate and the idea built up from there.

Manco started as a character for a different FoE campaign that didn't get far off the ground. His occupation is listed as wasteland mail-pony (despite being a zebra, he never liked calling himself a zebra), but he never actually worked for any kind of pony express. Mostly did deliveries as an independent courier, and hired himself out as a sniper for gangs. He was very open-minded and liked to slack off from time to time.

Switchblade came about as a foil for Doc when I started drawing the comics and writing a fanfic. I wanted to make her a raider, but from a sane tribe like the Great Khans in New Vegas. Her personality inspired by Wanda Sykes. Maybe someday I'll play her as a PC. She'd be a fun character to RP.